Posted on 10/24/2009 3:43:52 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7, is on course to break sales records following its launch today.
The online retailer Amazon said that it was the “biggest grossing pre-order product of all time”, having overtaken the likes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Nintendo’s Wii.
Speaking at the launch of Windows 7 yesterday, Jeremy Fennell, Category Director at DSGi, which owns Dixons, Currys and PC World, said: “We have sold more copies of Windows 7 in three weeks on pre-order than Vista sold in its first year.”
At midnight, queues could be seen outside stores as computers users got ready to upgrade their PCs to the new system as soon as possible.
(Excerpt) Read more at technology.timesonline.co.uk ...
My wife has Vista, has spent about $400 trying to get it to work well. For me, I went Mac about two years ago, and you know what they say “Once you go Mac, you never go back”.
The "upgrade" requires a fresh install when you go from XP, but Microsoft had a nice little free program that grabs your profile and anything else you want it to and saves it in a file on a jump drive, then puts it all back where it needs to go on the new install.
Overall, it was the most painless upgrade I've ever done. I'm really liking it. My system really smokes now with the 64 bit version!
I have't read past your reply yet, but I'll bet there will be someone talking about how a free version of Ubuntu is just as good. (Well Ubuntu WILL run on a 386 with 64Mb of memory!)
Produce crap.
Produce solution to previous Crap.
Success!!!!
Profit!!!!
I like Vista, too. I have had NO problems with it. Unlike XP, and I was very resistant to switching at the time.
Well I went out and purchased a new HP computer with Windows 7 on it today and so far compared to Vista I LOVE Windows 7!
If that were all that it takes to make money, why are you not as rich as Bill Gates is?
It’s not like going out to buy a Toyota if you’re unhappy with your Chevy.
The Toyota in this case (Apple) would cost twice as much.
I still think there’s an opening for a 3rd brand of consumer OS. Perhaps that’s where Google is heading? Of course that won’t fly on FR because they’re liberals........sigh.
It better get here soon because, Vista sucks.
In a nutshell, what is it about 7 that makes it better?
My dad wasn’t a lawyer and I’m quite happy giving my IP away or selling it cheap.
Or for about 3 times that, you'll be able to get a decent new computer in January with it already installed.
Windows95 with a fancy paint job.
That may have something to do with the fact that "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows" cost in the neighborhood of $20 while Windows 7 is in the range (depending on the version) of $120 to $300!
So a single copy of the Windows 7 Premium Home upgrade costs the same as 5 copies of HP & TDH.
Mark
Congratulations on the new computer!
So did they completely knock-off Apple’s 10.5 or just part of it?
Naaaah.
They just knocked off you head, and put chaff inside your coconot, then put it back on, that's all.
Same 'ol MS hype. No one ever seems to learn. MS has figured out they can release a "new" OS every 3 years or so since the public seems to take that long to forget the last time MS shafted them.
There's a great new Apple ad to that effect here:
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